In highschool, I went with a small group of classmates to a tarot reader or palm reader (or whatever it is those people do). Nobody can say I'm not op...
Ha! Some years back, as part of my own quest, I summarized my quest as "how to be a genuine fake". Then I googled it. Turns out someone else had that ...
That's why mandatory vaccination could be a last resort. It would force the government to act more transparently and to take at least a part of the re...
What do you not understand? Dealing in potentially dangerous substances, calculating odds, and playing Russian roulette is how mobsters, gamblers, and...
At this forum, not once have I seen that a pro-vaccer said that people should get vaccinated for their own sake. Not once has anyone who has told me t...
And yet every day we hear things like, "If so and so would've gotten the vaccination, he'd be safe and well." You said such a thing just the other day...
The same wrong argument made a million times is still the wrong argument. You're forcing us into mediocrity, into thinking like gamblers, mobsters, an...
Is it really a vice or anything even resembling a vice? Do you know anyone who actually believes that the stuff written in the Declaration of Human Ri...
What are you talking about?! I have stated my position many times, but you and your fellows just don't find it worth to remember it. This is the messa...
Take a look: Is the country you live in actually in a state of an epidemic? Has the government declared it? People keep talking about a pandemic, but ...
A reply straight from the rightwinger's textbook: Shoot, don't aim. Act in bad faith. Assume the other person is immoral, and an idiot. Don't bother t...
Of course, as long as one is ignorant of said system. Except that the apparent paradox has an explanation. I remember an example of this from a Hindu ...
Exactly. Vaccination is first and foremost a social measure, not a medical one. They do. All you need is a covid pass, and then you can do anything yo...
I wonder when (!) they'll start segregating the vaccinated based on which vaccine they've been vaccinated with. There is already a trend to hold those...
This is the mentality of mobsters, gamblers, and drug dealers. I am none of that, so I don't reason this way. We're supposed to have a scientific and ...
It's so convenient to blame covid for what is actually the general decline of quality in human interaction. I sometimes watch interviews with people t...
So you command people to do things, or you give them (unsolicited) advice, and you take no responsibility for the outcome if they act accordingly. I w...
Must by just my karma that I've met some! No. Things don't work like that. But I suppose that to understand this, one needs to have first-hand experie...
What other system is organized around the idea of a complete cessation of suffering? Yes, the idea of suffering and the idea of making an end to suffe...
Sure, in such general terms, ideas of enlightenment seem to be similar across numerous cultures, traditions, religions, etc. But once one looks more c...
Sure. But it's not the majority who has the say; it's those with power who have the say, and they can do that even if they are statistically a minorit...
Often, people who make a point of appearing hopeful, optimistic and as having an idealistic view of the future are actually deeply unhappy and scared....
The most common variety in stores in continental Europe are vanilla, or, apparently properly spelled "Vaniglia". They are not astringent when hard. Wh...
Ha! Many currently used textbooks for logic were originally written in English, with the rules of English in mind. And like so many other textbooks, t...
As mentioned by some others, those pithy Zen sayings are part of a vast and complex system of doctrine and practice. Once considered that way, they ce...
Sure, and the Epicureans and the others that you mention have whole systems of metaphysics into which they embed their notions of letting go. Those sy...
The question is how far you can go with this letting go. So far, we've mentioned gross examples of people refusing to abandon their cars which are stu...
I think the salient point here is that the Tathagata doesn't "make any new karma". He understands, sees things in a way that doesn't lead to suffering...
There is the idea that Buddhism isn't about metaphysics, that it eschews metaphysics. Many people take this to mean that it doesn't concern itself wit...
Okay. It's been over a year now since I've distanced myself from organized Buddhism. I can report that its grip on me has loosened a bit. While before...
Which doesn't matter at all when _you_ are the one who suffers the negative side effects of the vaccine. Such as paralysis after a stroke. The same ar...
Except that pretty much everyone is, to use your word, such a fuckwit about one thing or another. Some people refuse to abandon their broken cars that...
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